GOUT Vs OUT ruLes - screenshot comparison
Comments are referred to OUT ruLes in comparison to GOUT, using GOUT frame numbers for reference.
GOUT direct copy from PAL DVD; then resized with the same method used for OUT ruLes.
1570 - Initial crawl: as the Spanish, English and French LD versions has this crawl, I decided to use it instead the one used on GOUT; because EP V and EP VI has the episode number as first line, and because the project will include also both of them, this choice seems logical to me, also if some purists will disagree.
2833 - More stars in the sky, but the space is lighter than GOUT, due to the script I generally used over the whole movie; I'm thinking about using a less aggressive detailers for the initial crawl and some outer space scenes, to leave black blacker.
3724-5 - Tantive corridor orange error: the first frame needs correction, while the second seems it was "auto corrected" with the median&average process... image is a lot cleaner than GOUT, but the corridor is pinker...
4249 - ...but few scenes later, the GOUT corridor is pinker instead!
10398 - more stars out there, and a little fewer lines of resolution on the bottom of the image.
11331 - Leia's face and shirt color are better.
11381 - Darth Vader is black and not blue-ish.
11313 - Sky and sand have better colors; sky has not white clipping.
14943 - Better sky, and the darker band on the right side is almost vanished.
19734 - R2-D2 is white (light gray, actually, because is so dirt ;-) and not pink-ish like in GOUT.
22036 - no more four-eyes stormtrooper! colors are more real.
36613 - Sunset is less violet, and the right "bloom" is less noticeable.
36726 - Binary sunset has completely different color timing... don't know if it's perfect, but it seems more close to the original film than GOUT.
38066 - binoculars' digits are green instead of red... which is the right color?
38067-8-9 Binoculars green&blue error... the green and blue frames are present in all the THX PAL laserdiscs and VHS... I thought delete those two frames, take the third frame and repeat it three times; the result will be less distracting than the actual scene.
47121 - no DVNR problems on Luke's face!
60865 - the image is shifted more than usual, compared to GOUT.
61356 - White droid, blacker stormtrooper's accessories.
62163 - The most (in)famous scene ruined by high DVNR, here is intact! "Look ma', I have legs!"
63180 - The DVNR blurred the guy's face (on the right side); now it is more recognizable.
66577 - Obi Wan's lightsaber is not "bleeding" light anymore, but the scene is darker than GOUT.
70648 - lighter scene and better colors.
70848 - better colors - note the green on the wall is not there anymore.
73276 - stormtroopers are white and not pink-ish
86978 - The Death Star interiors are dark grey and not blue-violet...
95409 - ... but here the opposite is true! Maybe the soldier is surprised for that?
96557 - here the resolution of laserdisc is visibly lower.
96722 - "Obi-Wan is not blind anymore!"
102113 - now the Death Star's interior is again dark grey...
103741 - Stormtrooper is white and not pink, the wall grey and not violet.
117182 - metal seems more real, white is whiter, some lines of resolution more on top.
120140 - Chewbacca's fur color is better, lights are white and not pink, a little more resolution.
127631 - Vader's lightsaber is "cut" on top, Obi-Wan's one is too light, and his cap is black(?!?)... this time GOUT is better!
127881 - ... but few frames after, it's the opposite: Obi-Wan robe has the right color, and his lightsaber, also if too light, at least is not green... but Vader is not as black as it should be; in GOUT, he's better.
146944 - I don't know which forest has the right color... the top could be a young forest after the rain, the bottom could be a very old forest without rain for years... but the bottom has white clipping problems (look at the cloud under the planet).
147238 - This time GOUT has white clipping problems... look inside the green; in GOUT some details are lost.
151933 - The ship is white and not blue, but the stars are better on GOUT.
165769 - R2-D2 is really dirt here, but at least is white(ish) and not pink(ish)...
168485 - Seems there are some details more; for sure, some lines of resolution more on top.
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Conclusions: the truth is GL doesn't care much about the original unaltered trilogy, and so the related DVD has not the best qualities (poor video quality non anamorphic taken from the laserdisc master, simple stereo soundtracks). But neverthless the production cost of this DVD was surely very high. So I'm proud to have started this project, with a quality sometimes better than that DVD, using only a PC, a laserdisc player, some laserdiscs and free softwares like Avisynth and Virtualdub. And obviously all the help found here, given by really precious people.
Tests are going on; for the moment, the only thing I must add to release some version are the forced subtitles.
If someone want to see some other screenshot(s), post here the frame number(s).
I'm waiting for your comments.